2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

The paint color is beautiful-I can only imagine what it looked like back in the day. This building must have been beautiful...

These remind me of airplane seats-my brother in law obtained retired airplane seats and he welded skis to the bottom- he pulls it behindnhis snowmobile in the winter when the lake freezes-so cool!

Wow Motts-awesome shot. I wonder-was is dark when you took this? What was the lighting like in there? You have an amazing way with exposure-capturing a room even when it is almost pitch black like in previous shots! I love this site-been looking at it for years. I get so excited when new galleries are posted. And reading Lynne's comments. I miss them!

The room above is likely a darkroom for developing x-rays. The metal frames hanging on the wall had clips in the four corners to hold the film in place while it was dipped in the developer, fixer, and water baths. Then the frames were hung in a dryer for 20-30 minutes. To get a "wet reading" the radiologist looked at the images before they went into the dryer (usually for emergencies). The machine below the frames looks like the tanks that held the chemicals.

Wtf o_O

is it me,or does that resemble johnny depp??

I like this,even though it is a fail! something eerie yet good about it. perhaps the way the paint drips down like blood.

and whats an all metal antique wheelchair from the early 1900's worth?

i ment to say an antique all wooden wheelchair worth?

How much is an antique wheelchair worth today? anlong with an antique metal wheel chair early 1900's worth?

Yes, most places with an alias can be researched and found quite easily using the historical information... but it does take that small amount of effort to do it.

I have a resentment towards lazy people. I've spent a good number of hours research some of these places, and it's tough to simply put it out there when the place is almost unheard of and forgotten. If I were to pinpoint each location, I feel I would be killing the little bits of "exploration" left in the world (especially after the advent of exploring forums, Flickr, and GPS camera data).

Some of the greatest feelings come to me when I'm pouring my heart into finding some hidden place using whatever clues I can, and I finally nail it. When I physically get there and start shooting, I also feel more... proud, I suppose is the closest word. Why deprive someone of that?

Some places also have a pseudonym in respect to someone who had given me a heads-up on the place, and asked to keep it undisclosed.

In any case, if anyone has the motivation to go out and find these places, it's not too hard. If they're lazy, I'll just get another "What's the address of this place?" comment, and subsequently delete it :-)

All these places will probably show up in some IPhone App sooner or later, but until then it'll be our secret :-)

Why do you hide the locations of some of your "haunts". I live in Texas and by taking one small line from the bio you wrote of this place and googling it I was able to find the original article that it came from? I mean it does make it a little more fun to track it for yourself, but in this day and age almost nothing stays hidden long thanks to the WWW. Anyway just wondering. =)

Thats funny!

That's an antique suction unit.

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